From owner-freebsd-emulation Wed Jul 10 2: 4:31 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AE38237B400; Wed, 10 Jul 2002 02:04:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from park.rambler.ru (park.rambler.ru [217.73.193.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3A94243E5E; Wed, 10 Jul 2002 02:04:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from is@rambler-co.ru) Received: from is (is.stack.net [217.73.193.40]) by park.rambler.ru (8.11.6/8.9.3) with ESMTP id g6A94Pk46533; Wed, 10 Jul 2002 13:04:26 +0400 (MSD) (envelope-from is@rambler-co.ru) Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2002 13:04:25 +0400 (MSD) From: Igor Sysoev X-Sender: is@is To: stable@freebsd.org, emulation@freebsd.org Subject: VMware2 and CDROM image Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hi, I have a patch that allow to use CD-ROM images in VMware2 via vn device: http://sysoev.ru/freebsd/patch.vn_cd.txt Patch was made and tested on FreeBSD 4.2 and 4.3. I had used it to install Windows NT 4.0 from CD-ROM image in VMware2. It can be used on FreeBSD 4.x only (because it's using vn device). Russian description is available here: http://sysoev.ru/freebsd/vmware_cd_image.html In English, short: After appling of patch you need rebuild vnconfig and kernel. vnconfig will get new options - '-s cdrom': vnconfig -s cdrom -c vn0c image.iso After configuring vn device you can use it in VMware2 as /dev/vn0c instead of physical CD-ROM device. Igor Sysoev http://sysoev.ru To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-emulation" in the body of the message